Althouse: "Ukraine is weak. It is feeble. I think it is time to put the hurt on the Ukraine."

March 3, 2014

"Ukraine is weak. It is feeble. I think it is time to put the hurt on the Ukraine."

"Ukraine is game to you!"

13 comments:

SteveR said...: In Risk, the Ukraine (esp with the Middle East) is a game changer. But you need lots of armies.; 3/3/14, 11:25 AM
Curious George said...: "Ukraine is game to you!"

That was a question, not a statement. Should have a ?; 3/3/14, 11:45 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Wow. Nobody mentioned Obama once.

Fascinating,...; 3/3/14, 11:49 AM
jr565 said...: I love the idea of Kramer and Newman being so into Risk that they'd bring it onto a new York subway and continue playing while riding the train. Absurd and hilarious.; 3/3/14, 11:55 AM
rhhardin said...: "When the sentence "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (дух бодр, плоть же немощна, an allusion to Mark 14:38) was [machine] translated into Russian and then back to English, the result was "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten" (спирт, конечно, готов, но мясо протухло). "; 3/3/14, 12:05 PM
CStanley said...: @jr565- yes, absurd....we have trouble keeping the game board set up on the dining room table without someone accidentally jiggling it and knocking the armies around.; 3/3/14, 12:06 PM
PB said...: Obama must have learned his foreign affairs from playing Risk.; 3/3/14, 12:49 PM
Brian Brown said...: It certainly is a game to Obama...; 3/3/14, 12:57 PM
KCFleming said...: Obama learned his foreign affairs from playing bong pong.; 3/3/14, 1:38 PM
jr565 said...: CStanley wrote:
@jr565- yes, absurd....we have trouble keeping the game board set up on the dining room table without someone accidentally jiggling it and knocking the armies around."

I haven't played Risk in ages (have moved on to better games since then)but I remember the few times we had to stop playing in the middle of the game and had to mark how many armies were in each country just in case some jostled the board.
I can imagine playing on a moving NYC train.; 3/3/14, 1:59 PM
Known Unknown said...: Axis & Allies > Risk; 3/3/14, 3:51 PM
gyc said...: "Oh, it's Risk, it's a game of world domination being played by two guys who can barely run their own lives."; 3/3/14, 5:01 PM
Rusty said...: The Crack Emcee said...
Wow. Nobody mentioned Obama once.

Fascinating,...

You did.

Fascinating....; 3/3/14, 5:42 PM